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[First Private Atom Power Plant Opens]

by: Universal-International Newsreel

Publication date: 1957

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: Newsreels, Atomic-nuclear: Energy, San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda County

Item Size: 60.8M

Vallecitos Atomic Electric Power Plant, the first licensed nuclear power plant, opens at Pleasanton, Calif. on November 25, 1957. Newsreel story.

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Vallecitos Atomic Electric Power plant opens at Pleasanton, Calif. On November 25, 1957. This is the first licensed nuclear power plant
GS plant amid rolling hills
Dignitaries in auditorium
Governor Goodwin Knight speaks
Dignitaries enter airlock
Inaugurated by Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, who drills holes for plaque showing ÒLicense Number OneÓ
Dials showing power flowing through plant

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